Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentle" Jains, one of India's oldest religious sects, believe that almost every living thing is man's brother. They are thus careful not to harm any form of animal life, even the smallest insects. Gandhi once (1928) offended them deeply by killing a helplessly maimed calf. The Jains are humane to women & children but take a dim view of mankind in general: billions of years ago humanity was very good, they say, but in less than 40,000 years from now, all men, having reached the bottom of a "bad" cycle, will be less than one foot...
Even if the U.S. Treasury plugs the capital-gains tax hole (and it may take an act of Congress), the harm will have been done-to the majors. The independents have learned how to make more money alone, by avoiding the tremendous overhead of big studio plants and top-heavy platoons of executives. Example: Actor James Cagney and his brother Bill have made as much on two independent pictures, even by paying corporation income taxes, as they made on six pictures at Warner Bros...
...Most of the pills are barbiturates, which do not cause drug addiction. Some doctors avoid giving them if possible, as they can produce a pretty good jag, and neurotics or psychotic people can develop a sort of addiction. But many other doctors feel that any harm in sleeping pills is slight compared to their benefits, during mental or physical emergencies...
...just currying favor. In one written examination, 82% of the prisoners named Hitler as history's greatest tyrant; Nero, Napoleon and Hirohito were way behind. Says the present camp commander, Captain Alfred C. Johnson: "We can be sure only that our experiment in education is doing no harm...
Infra-red photography, which will pierce a layer of pigment, showed a different inscription underneath: "vjtorjs carpattjj venettj opus (Work of Vittore Carpaccio of Venice)." Using solvents which would not harm the original painting surface, a technician removed the varnishes. The forged signature came off too, but Carpaccio's remained almost illegible. The reason: Carpaccio had apparently painted it out himself...